It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.

Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.

So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.

I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.